Project Gutenberg #5230
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
1897Wells's scientific romance about invisibility and social panic, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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AI Summary
Chapter 28 — CHAPTER XXVIII. The Hunter Hunted Central question What does defeat look like for a man who believed he could never be seen? Main argument The invisible man is finally trapped, exhausted, and...
lay,
naked and pitiful on the ground, the bruised and broken body of a young
man about thirty. His hair and brow were white—not grey with age, but
white with the whiteness of albinism—and his eyes were like garnets.
His hands were clenched, his eyes wide open, and his expression was one
of anger and dismay.
“Cover his face!” said a man. “For Gawd’s sake, cover that face!” and
three little children, pushing forward through the crowd, were suddenly
twisted round and sent packing off again.
Someone brought a sheet from the “Jolly Cricketers,” and having covered
him, they carried him into that house. And there it was, on a shabby
bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant
and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that
Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the
most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite
disaster his strange and terrible career.